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Have you been reading about "booms" over some states?

 
 
Reply Fri 24 Nov, 2017 07:57 am
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/216026/20171124/mysterious-booms-heard-in-colorado-leave-residents-baffled.htm
A loud boom-like noise shook parts of Lakewood, Brighton, Lochbuie, and Elizabeth in Colorado on Monday night. The sound, which residents described as an explosion, has left authorities baffled.

Mysterious Noise Baffles Residents
The boom was reportedly first heard around 9 p.m., local time, on Nov. 20. It was so loud that some people in the vicinity stated that their house and windows shook during the incident.

A few residents took to Facebook to report the matter, while several others called up Denver7, the local news channel, to describe the noise.

"It was just like boom and the trailer shook, and I thought, 'what the heck was that?’”, said Ray Armijo, a resident who has served in the military. "It kind of scared me a bit.”

Armijo also added that the sound did not seem to come from the ground but rather from the air. Another resident, Aleja Moronez, claimed that the noise was so loud that it moved things in her room and some posters fell off the wall.

Lochbuie Police Chief, Tracey McCoy, said that he contacted both the Buckley Air Force Base and Federal Aviation Administration, however, they were carrying out no operations in the area at that time that could have contributed to the sound. The Brighton Fire Department also received several calls from worried residents, but they too could not locate the source.

Booms Also Heard In Other Parts Of United States
Colorado is not the only U.S. state, where residents of several towns have reported hearing explosion-like sounds. In the past few days, the booms have also been heard in New Jersey, Alabama, Idaho, and Detroit.

The residents of the areas are now speculating about the cause of the noise, now referred to as “Bama Boom”, with some attributing it to active meteor showers, deep earthquake, and even an alien invasion.

The Birmingham National Weather Service originally hypothesized that the sound could have come from a supersonic aircraft or that a meteor, from the Leonid meteor shower, which peaked on Nov. 17 and 18, could have broken the sound barrier. The latter, however, was refuted by the head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, Bill Cooke.

Cooke said that the noise could have been caused by a ground explosion, supersonic aircraft, or probably a bolide, which is a large meteor that explodes in the atmosphere, but is unrelated to the Leonid meteor shower.

The U.S. Geological Survey's Lakeview Retreat near Centreville, Alabama had also picked up a boom sound. However, seismic data indicated that the boom was not the result of an earthquake-related event.

At present, authorities are still investigating the incidents and are trying to figure out the actual reason that led to the booms, which have been heard at various points throughout the month.
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Reply Fri 24 Nov, 2017 09:39 am
@edgarblythe,
Interesting, EB. Consider this a bookmark.
I remember sonic booms sometime in my past, guessing in California, maybe via Edwards AFB, just a guess.
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Reply Fri 24 Nov, 2017 10:39 am
@edgarblythe,
Funny you should mention this. On Monday night after going to bed, I felt a kind of bump or vibration that came up through the floor and through my bed. It caused me to get up and go outside with a flashlight to make sure no animal or person had somehow gotten into the crawlspace under my house; but no one had.
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Reply Sat 25 Nov, 2017 11:32 am
@edgarblythe,
Quote:
....and the trailer shook...
need I say more
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Reply Sat 25 Nov, 2017 01:41 pm
Something very strange is going on, and it seems to be happening all around our planet. Reports continue to emerge of booming sounds of mysterious origin echoing from the sky, from Colorado and Alabama to the Middle East, United Kingdom and Australia, according to News Corp Australia.

The sounds, understandably startling for those who hear them, are certainly not the voices of gods, although their source has thus far defied scientific explanation as well.

A recent example occurred in Alabama, when a thunderous noise shook houses and frightened residents on Nov. 20. Not long after, explosion-like sounds were also heard in Colorado, although officials now believe that the Colorado clamor was unrelated to the worldwide phenomenon, likely caused by oil and gas extraction.

Other booms around the world, like the one in Alabama, remain unexplained. Locals in Cairns, Australia, were shaken by a loud rumble on Oct. 10. Then two weeks later, another boom was heard over the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. Other mysterious sounds have been heard in as far reaching places as Michigan and Yorkshire, U.K.

Of course, there are theories. Anytime booming sounds are heard from the sky, it's worth ruling out a sonic boom caused by aircraft breaking the sound barrier. This might explain a few of the events — for instance, there are reports of a FA-18 Hornet plane flying nearby when the sound was heard in Cairns, Australia — but it's not a viable theme across all of the events.

Another possibility is that the booms are caused by meteors exploding in the sky. The Leonid meteor shower has coincided with the hysteria. This theory would certainly explain why the phenomenon is global, though astronomers have insisted that meteors produced by the Leonids are way too small for this to happen.

Ground explosions also make for a prime suspect, but it's unclear how a ground disruption could explain the worldwide distribution of the sounds.

At least one NASA scientist, Bill Cooke, has chimed in, telling ABC 3340 that NASA’s meteor scientists are still in the process of analyzing the data and are looking for possible patterns between each of the reports. So far, though, there have been no consistent leads.

Of course, it's also possible that each of these booming sounds is entirely unrelated to the others, each with its own local explanation. It's not as if many of the booms from around the world occurred at the same time; several events are separated by weeks, even months at this point. Even so, anytime a loud boom is heard, it's worth getting to the bottom of it. Booms, whether connected to largescale, global phenomena or not, can be jarring to the imagination.
https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/stories/mysterious-loud-booms-are-being-heard-around-world-and-no-one-knows-why
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